# Error Generated with Preloader! Please Help!

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/error-generated-with-preloader-please-help/324889>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [September 14, 2011, 5:33am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/error-generated-with-preloader-please-help/324889 "2011-09-14T05:33:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![chedrick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ad7895/32.png) [@chedrick](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/chedrick)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2011, 5:33am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/error-generated-with-preloader-please-help/324889/1 "2011-09-14T05:33:36Z")

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I am getting the following error when I try to publish my preloader: Scene 1, Layer ‘preloader actions’, Frame 1, Line 9 1119: Access of possibly undefined property star through a reference with static type flash.display:Loader.  
Can someone please let me know what I am doing wrong? Below is my code for the preloader…

```auto
stop();

loader.star.addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, updateLoader);

loader.star.scaleX = 0;

function updateLoader(event):void {
	var prog:Number = loaderInfo.bytesLoaded / loaderInfo.bytesTotal;
	loader.star.scaleX = prog;
	//trace("loader scale = " + loader.bar.scaleX);
	if ( prog == 1 ){
		loader.star.removeEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, updateLoader);
		//goto the next frame where the content is.
		gotoAndStop(2);
	}
}

```